Word: coax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helter-skelter quality of the plan was hardly enough to coax the U.S. into precipitate action. Instead, the Administration's prudent response was in keeping with the policy it has been enunciating for months. Bush, while he has repeatedly urged the P.D.F. to overthrow Noriega, has also maintained that the Panamanians must solve their own problems, with Latin leaders applying diplomatic pressure and the U.S. providing moral support...
Gore's appeal to moderates, his easy rapport with black leaders, and the fact that he will be the only white Southerner with a bloc of delegates constitute a large pile of chips. Says Nathan Landow, a fund raiser who helped coax Gore into the race: "If he doesn't get the top spot, he is the obvious running mate for any Northerner under any scenario, including a late entry by Mario Cuomo. Al Gore would bring all the necessary pieces...
...going to look like if he's around? . . . He will be attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and . . . he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women...
...Brooks is a subtler creator than Oliver Stone -- 18 years of writing and producing nifty TV shows like Mary Tyler Moore, The Associates and Taxi taught him to coax comedy from character instead of tossing it grenade-like under the viewer's seat, and Tom Grunick is a far subtler creature of malice than Bud or Gekko. But Brooks is agitated about the state of network news. He is unsettled by the marriage of the comely face and the bottom line. He is disturbed by the new big boys on Media Avenue -- not just in the news, and not just...
Najibullah (like many Afghans, he uses no first name) was trying to consolidate his grip on the affairs of state, but the ground was moving beneath him. His effort to coax rebels back into the fold with offers of amnesty has failed. His army has become a demoralized shambles. Soldiers often refuse to fight and are deserting to the rebels in large numbers. Now he must face the most daunting prospect of all: a possible pullout of Soviet troops...